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Leon Cort
Burnley
Born:
Joined the Tigers:
11th September 1979, Southwark
7th June 2004, from Southend United


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Tall and powerful central defender Leon Cort joined the Tigers in Summer 2004 after three seasons at Southend.  He cut his professional teeth - without making the first team grade - at Millwall, taking extended loan spells at Forest Green and Stevenage during 2000-01.  Prior to that he impressed as a teenager for Dulwich Hamlet.  After a slightly shaky start to the season Leon developed into a tremendous asset to the club during his first season, adopting a "none shall pass" attitude to defending and posing a genuine aerial threat at set pieces.  He continued this towering form into the Championship and perhaps became City's most prized asset, a suggestion that was proven when Peter Taylor made signing Leon for £1.2 million his first act when assuming the management of Crystal Palace.  The first act of Taylor's successor at Palace, the odious Neil Warnock, was to loan and then sell Leon to Stoke for an eventual £1 million fee.  Cort played a key role in Stoke's elevation to the Premier League alongside City, but was discarded by Pulis in the top flight and after a season and a half on the fringes he joined Burnley in January 2010 in a £1.5m deal.
Season Club League F A Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Full Sub Goals Full Sub Goals Full Sub Goals Full Sub Goals Full Sub Goals Full Sub Goals

1997-98

Millwall

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1998-99

Millwall

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1999-00

Millwall

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

2000-01

Millwall

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Total

 

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

2001-02

Southend United

43

2

4

4

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

49

2

4

2002-03

Southend United

46

-

6

4

-

1

1

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

52

-

7

2003-04

Southend United

46

-

1

5

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

6

-

-

58

-

1

Total

 

135

2

11

13

-

1

3

-

-

-

-

-

8

-

-

159

2

12

2004-05

Hull City

43

1

6

3

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

47

1

6

2005-06

Hull City

42

-

4

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

43

-

4

Total

 

85

1

10

4

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

90

1

10

2006-07

Crystal Palace

37

-

7

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

38

-

7

2007-08

Crystal Palace

12

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

12

-

-

2007-08

Stoke City (loan)

14

-

4

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

15

-

4

Total

 

63

-

11

2

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

65

-

11

2007-08

Stoke City

19

-

4

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

20

-

4

2008-09

Stoke City

9

2

-

-

-

-

2

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

11

3

-

2009-10

Stoke City

-

-

-

1

-

-

3

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

4

-

-

Total

 

28

2

4

2

-

-

5

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

35

3

4

2009-10

Burnley

15

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

15

-

-

Total

 

15

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

15

-

-

 

ALL

326

5

36

21

-

1

9

1

-

-

-

-

8

-

-

364

6

37

Last revised: May 15, 2010